Pass rate
91.9%
Above average — 1.2 pts ahead of the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 235 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £39–£88
2020 SEAT Leon Cupra MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 30,366 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
43.3% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 92.1% pass
- Avoid 2020 91.9% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.2%
- Typical mileage
- 30k mi
The 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra MOT pass rate is 91.9% of its MOT tests — 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 43.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how SEAT Leon Cupra does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.2× the national share
Tyres make up 43.3% of everything recorded on the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra, against 19.8% nationally — 23.5 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 10% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
- Based on a small sample. 235 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 1.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.2%. The median 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra in this dataset had covered 30,366 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.5% of the time, April–September 90.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 2.55% of tests.
- 235 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.9% overall pass rate, 91.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the SEAT Leon Cupra, the average is 92.0% — best year 2019 (92.1%), worst 2020 (91.9%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 235
- Typical mileage (median)
- 30,366 mi
- Make and model
- SEAT Leon Cupra
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Leon Cupra MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Leon Cupra
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 42 | 92.9% |
| West Midlands | 39 | 94.9% |
| Yorkshire | 24 | 95.8% |
| East of England | 23 | 91.3% |
| North West | 23 | 87.0% |
| South West | 23 | 82.6% |
| East Midlands | 20 | 90.0% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2020 Leon Cupra
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2020 Leon Cupra
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the brakes 0.8% of tests
“brake pads worn down to wear indicator”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the tyre tread 0.8% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the wipers and washers 0.8% of tests
“washers not working”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2020 Leon Cupra through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £39–£88 — and 10% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £39–£88
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: service brake performance excessively…
- £60–£150
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 10%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 235 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Every year of the Leon Cupra, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 91.9% to 92.1% — a spread of 0.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 92.1% has ply or cords exposed
- 2020 91.9%has ply or cords exposed
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2020 cars with a similar record
- Kia Niro 91.9%
- Ford Kuga 91.9%
- Fiat 500 91.9%
- Jaguar E-Pace 91.9%
- Audi E-Tron 91.9%
- Mitsubishi Outlander Exceed 91.9%
Closest pass rates among 2020 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 104 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 45 | 43.30% | 19.76% | +23.54 |
| Brakes | 29 | 27.90% | 20.89% | +7.01 |
| Suspension | 11 | 10.60% | 20.98% | −10.38 |
| Non-component advisories | 10 | 9.60% | 4.18% | +5.42 |
| Road Wheels | 4 | 3.80% | 0.75% | +3.05 |
| Visibility | 2 | 1.90% | 4.97% | −3.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 1.90% | 1.76% | +0.14 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 1.00% | 12.21% | −11.21 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.85% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 0.85% | £60–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.85% | £45–95 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.85% | £5–15 |
| Brake performance not tested not tested Brakes | Major | 0.43% | £60–150 |
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 0.43% | £20–55 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.43% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.43% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.43% | £45–95 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.4% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.5% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 2.5% | £30–75 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.1% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 1.7% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 115 | 93.0% | 19,347 mi |
| 30-60k | 115 | 91.3% | 41,582 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 80.0% | 63,018 mi |
Source: 235 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2020 Leon Cupra MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra?
91.9% of the 235 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 91.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (2.55%), brake pads worn down to wear indicator (0.85%), service brake performance excessively fluctuating (0.85%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.0% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra in this dataset had covered 30,366 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 SEAT Leon Cupra MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.